Word: vat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Electrifying food news came last week from St. Louis. There, in a vat the size of a small room (1,000 cu. ft.), molasses, ammonia, water, air and yeast were being mixed. Every twelve hours this mixture produced a ton of good rich meat-nearly as succulent as the sirloin steak it takes two years to raise on the hoof, much cheaper, and much richer in proteins and vitamins. Furthermore, this new synthetic meat is so easy to make that its inventors already look forward to performing a modern miracle of the loaves & fishes after the war among the foodless...
...Powder for the Future. Anheuser-Busch is now geared to produce millions of pounds a year. The process: 125 lb. of yeast is planted in a vat containing 7,000 gal. of water, a ton and a half of molasses (on whose sugar the yeast feeds) and ammonia (which provides nitrogen that the yeast converts into protein). The mixture is kept warm, stirred by 1,000 cu. ft. of air a minute (without air the yeast would ferment the sugar). After twelve hours the prodigiously growing yeast, having multiplied its original weight 16 times, is a ton of flavorsome food...
...naps on the floor. Army bombers took the last 22,000 lb. of production to the seaboard. By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, June 11, just two weeks after the first Army phone call and only seven hours after it left Standard's Pittsburgh plant, the final vat was stowed away and North Africa-bound. The whole thing happened so fast that no one even thought to talk about contracts and cost. But by last week, with the new invasion an amphibious success, the cost of Standard's Sicilian sidelight seemed academic...
...Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street" he reaches full stature, playing a tender-hearted sleuth with an ever-present bottle of Vat...
...parade before the flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade...